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May 5 - Faithfulness in Every Calling · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today.
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  May 5th Patience in the journey. Have you ever reacted too
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  quickly and wished you could take it back?
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  A harsh text, a sharp answer, a door slammed, a friendship
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  strained. Sometimes the hardest part of
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  following God is not knowing what to do.
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  It is learning how to respond when emotions are loud.
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  Proverbs chapter 15 verses 18 to 19 says a hot tempered man stirs
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  up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
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  The way of a lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of
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  the upright is a level highway. First Corinthians Chapter 7
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  verse 20 says each person should remain in the condition in which
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  he was called. In that chapter, Paul also
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  speaks about faithfulness, commitment, and honoring God in
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  the relationships and situations where we find ourselves.
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  Patience is not weakness. Patience is strength under
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  control. It is the ability to pause
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  before you explode. Pray before you decide, and
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  choose peace when conflict is trying to pull you in.
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  A hot temper can turn a small issue into a painful wound, but
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  a calm spirit can quiet tension and protect relationships.
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  And then Proverbs gives us another picture.
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  Laziness creates a path like a hedge of thorns, but uprightness
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  creates a level highway. In other words, some struggles
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  become harder because we avoid responsibility, delay obedience,
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  or refuse discipline. But when we walk faithfully with
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  God, one right step at a time, He makes the path clearer.
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  Maybe you are waiting for something to change.
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  Maybe you feel stuck in your family, your school, your job,
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  or your season of life. God is not asking you to escape
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  faithfulness. He is teaching you to honor Him
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  right where you are. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, teach me to be slow to anger and quick to
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  listen. Help me respond with patience
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  when life feels frustrating. Give me the courage to be
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  faithful in the place You have called me, even when I wish
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  things were different. Remove laziness, pride and
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  impulsiveness from my heart and lead me on the upright path that
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  brings peace in Jesus name, Amen.
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  What if the battles hitting your family are not random and your
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  home can become a place where darkness loses every right to
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  stay? The Secured Home is a powerful
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  six book prayer series for believers who want to guard
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  their households with biblical authority, peace and confidence
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  in Jesus Christ. Book 1.
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  Guarded Thresholds fortifies every doorway, room, and entry
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  point with prayerful protection. Book 2, Cleansed Rooms, helps
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  reclaim spaces marked by fear, unrest, and spiritual
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  defilement. Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes
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  hidden access points and severs every agreement with darkness.
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  Book 4, Broken Assignments, confronts oppression, torment,
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  and attacks against your family. Book 5, Consecrated Walls,
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  dedicates every space and rhythm of the home to God.
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  Book 6, Abiding Peace, shows how to maintain spiritual order,
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  rest, and holy presence every day.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs Chapter 15 Verses 18 to
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  19 World English Bible A wrathful man stirs up
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  contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
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  The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of
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  the upright is a highway. First Corinthians Chapter 7
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  World English Bible Now concerning the things about
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  which you wrote to me. It is good for a man not to
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  touch a woman, but because of sexual immoralities, let each
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  man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and
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  likewise also the wife her husband.
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  The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the
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  husband likewise also the husband doesn't have authority
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  over his own body but the wife. Don't deprive one another unless
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  it is by consent for a season that you may give yourselves to
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  fasting and prayer and may be together again.
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  That Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of
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  self-control. But this I say by way of
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  concession, not of commandment. Yet I wish that all men were
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  like me. However, each man has his own
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  gift from God. 1 of this kind, and another of that kind.
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  But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them
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  if they remain even as I am. But if they don't have
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  self-control, let them marry, for it's better to marry than to
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  burn. But to the married I command not
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  I, but the Lord, that the wife not leave her husband, but if
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  she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled
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  to her husband, and that the husband not leave his wife.
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  But to the rest, I, not the Lord, say, if any brother has an
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  unbelieving wife and she is content to live with him, let
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  him not leave her. The woman who has an unbelieving
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  husband and he is content to live with her, let her not leave
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  her husband. For the unbelieving husband is
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  sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified
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  in the husband. Otherwise your children would be
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  unclean. But now they are holy.
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  Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation.
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  The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but
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  God has called us in peace. For how do you know wife,
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  whether you will save your husband?
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  Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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  Only as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called
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  each, so let him walk. So I command in all the
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  assemblies, Was anyone called having been circumcised, Let him
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  not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in
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  uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
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  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing but
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  the keeping of the commandments of God.
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  Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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  Were you called being a bondservant?
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  Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to
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  become free, use it. For he who was called in the
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  Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord's freeman.
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  Likewise, he who was called being free is Christ's
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  bondservant. You were bought with a price.
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  Don't become bond servants of men, brothers.
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  Let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in
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  that condition with God. Now concerning virgins, I have
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  no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one
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  who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
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  Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us,
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  that it's good for a man to remain as he is.
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  Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed.
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  Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.
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  But if you marry, you have not sinned.
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  If a virgin marries, she has not sinned yet such will have
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  oppression in the flesh. And I want to spare you.
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  But I say this, brothers, the time is short, that from now on
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  both those who have wives may be as though they had none, and
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  those who weep as though they didn't weep.
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  And those who rejoice as though they didn't rejoice.
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  And those who buy as though they didn't possess, and those who
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  use the world as not using it to the fullest.
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  For the mode of this world passes away.
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  But I desire to have you to be free from cares.
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  He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how
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  he may please the Lord. But he who is married is
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  concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his
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  wife. There is also a difference
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  between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about
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  the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
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  spirit, but she who is married cares about the things of the
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  world how she may please her husband.
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  This I say for your own profit, not that I may ensnare you, but
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  for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the
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  Lord without distraction. But if any man thinks that he is
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  behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the
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  flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he
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  desires, He doesn't sin, let them marry.
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  But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency,
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  but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own
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  heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
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  So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does
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  well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.
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  A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, But
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  if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever
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  she desires only in the Lord. But she is happier if she stays
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  as she is, in my judgement. And I think that I also have
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